I am perhaps better known as the founder and CEO of LiveCode, a programming environment. I started coding as a teenager and released my first app in high school. I went full time when I was 17, talking a few friends into not going to university with me. LiveCode’s motto is “Develop Yourself” – a play on words – you can develop your own apps with our technology, and you need to develop your own broader skills and capabilities to be successful both as a coder and in life or in business. Its a motto that I live and breathe, as that has been the story of my own life.

What I haven’t talked about publicly before is that from the age of 15 to 35 I fought (and eventually won!) a prolonged battle with recurring, treatment resistant depression…